A Baseball (Anti-)Hero in the Waste Land: Exploring Mythical Uncertainties in Bernard Malamud’s 'The Natural'

Most critics of Bernard Malamud’s The Natural (1952) have focused their analysis of the novel on probing the obvious mythical allusions in the text that combine Arthurian mythology and baseball folklore. More recent discussions, however, have raised the issue of the novel’s symbolic ambiguity which...

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Main Author: Rebeca Gualberto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2023-11-01
Series:Anglo Saxonica
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Online Access:https://account.revista-anglo-saxonica.org/index.php/up-j-as/article/view/85